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Fireside Chat #3: A Life You Can Digest

Choosing what truly matters.

Dear Readers,

Inspired by a trend from last year, I updated my list from 2024 about what’s out and what is in for 2025.

Instead of sitting by my warm hearth and by the fire, I sat in the garden with the gorgeous spring weather and made this short video podcast.

There’s been a happiness and acceptance in my bones recently. “Keep your head where your boots are” is something my sponsor says to me a lot. It’s a reminder to not be in the future worrying about things out of your control. It is an invitation to be exactly in the place you’re in. Boots. On. The. Ground.

March is by far my favourite month of the year. It’s the beginning of Spring, my birthday is on the 16th and Spring Equinox on the 21st. We are in transition and the blooms are coming to capture our awe. This is also my official “new year” and I’m feeling really supported by all the “end of year” prep work I’ve been doing to transition smoothly. This process has been aptly named “Operation Clean Up”.

"When we look back, we have often a mature perspective, because we've lived through something."

There’s a subtle celebration in the air. Nothing too big and outrageous, just a humble acknowledgement that I’m showing a lot of signs that I’ve moved graciously through “winter”.

I’ve been under the ground in a season of darkness and I’ve been carefully fertilizing the soil of my life, taking stock, lots of re-evaluation, lots of living and healing, and ultimately a “getting ready” for this next, very exciting and important phase of my life.

It has been quite grim in places and I’ve had many a crisis of confidence like WTF am I doing. I am however really landing at a place where I can fully admit, I really don’t know what I’m doing and I’m figuring it out. What a relief.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how do you build a life that is easy to digest and you don’t need to recover from? Especially as an entrepreneur, passionate woman, desiring mother, dopamine hunter type. I talk about this in the video and although this is my intent, I’m really learning on the job here.

I’ve also been exploring what if I divorce my leadership and coaching skills from financial and business success? What if monetary gain didn’t matter? What happens when I truly let go of the cultural menu of “More”?

"I can sit with healthy regret and sit with it and it not mean anything about me, but just it's fuel for the alchemy for the next time."

I share in this video that there are some things I regret and that it ok: poor business decisions, poor judgement of people, blinding following, putting my body through the ringer many times over. Done it. Did it. It’s ok.

Going through these experiences has really had me connect to a new sense of identity. Like who am I? And I explore how identity helps me orient to this new life, these more refined personal values and my surroundings.

Identity gets a bad rap, but it helps us immensely. It helps us say this is what this is and this is what I am. Sometimes we need things to be less grey and more clear. This also helps me be gentle and more able to live in my current reality.

It’s also absolutely terrifying to go through large and potent identity shifts. We resist them like hell. And then when we find ourselves surrendering to the current of where life is trying to take us and what it is trying to teach us, well then it all starts making sense. You feel me friends?

Right now I’m in my most wholesome season yet - it’s the cultivation of home, partnership, preparing for family building and my slow comeback into coaching, guidance and leadership. There’s been so much care in this process.

I’m tending, gently and lovingly, dating with a lot of intentionality and really enjoying the journey. It’s wonderful to feel my desire in the world working its magic. I feel guided and cared for, full of hope and faith for the way blessings are arriving into my life slowly.

I also feel this way about my work. It’s so wonderful to feel my spark returning and a slow internal bloom taking place. I’m also absolutely loving connecting with new and old students. My eco-system of strong relationships has been the stronghold that’s continually called me back to the work. I really believe we need each other mutually and lovingly to walk this journey together.

Thank you. You know who you are.

I’ve really enjoyed feeling from you where you relate to being on a similar journey with the shifts in your own life. I love that we are never, ever going through things alone. Even when that pesky inner voice says so.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE. YOU ARE LOVED AND WONDERFUL AND DOING IT PERFECTLY.

Let me know how you’re doing. Always love hearing from you.

I love you,

Liv

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